If you’ve bootcamped your new Intel MacBookPro and would like to get the fn keys to work, you should give the Input Remapper a try. Although still in alpa, it does a pretty fine job of enabling those very important laptop keys.

Clickable Bliss has a very good screencast that will provide an Introduction to Subversion. The screencast was developed on a Mac, but the info is excellent enough that it will apply to PC and Linux users as well.

Inspired by groups like the WSG and Britpack, The Better Web Posse (ok, we might still be looking for another name) is holding their Inaugural Monthly Meetup at the Sticky Wicket Pub in Victoria on Thursday, May 11, 2006. The meetup is designed to bring together web designers, developers, and uber geeks with hopes in providing support, general discussion, and encouragement in working with web standards. And what better Canadian way than to do this over beer? I’m planning on attending, so I hope to see you there!

Just in time for my new Mac Book Pro, idiosyncrasies.org has a nice list of applications that will help me Switch from Windows XP to Mac OSX with ease! Add those applications with Parallels and BootCamp, and now there has never been a better time to switch!

In his most recent column from PC Magazine, John Dvorak suggests that the Great Microsoft Blunder is Internet Explorer. In the column he states that:

So what can Microsoft do about its dilemma? First, it needs to face the fact that this entire preoccupation with the browser business is bad for the company and bad for the user. Microsoft should pull the browser out of the OS and discontinue all IE development immediately. It should then bless the Mozilla.org folks with a cash endowment and take an investment stake in Opera, to influence the future direction of browser technology from the outside in. Then, Microsoft can worry about security issues that are OS-only in nature, rather than problems compounded by Internet Explorer.

Those are great suggestions - only if MS were listening…

If two methods weren’t enough, here is another way to get XP on your Mac. The killer feature with this technique is that both XP and OSX can run at the same time and without virtualization!

DOM Builder is a great little script that will spare you the typing of createElements, setAttributes and appendChilds over and over again! This script which weighs in at 1K allows you to create DOM nodes with the elegance displayed in this following snippet:

var html = DomBuilder.apply();

var form = html.FORM(
  html.DIV(
    html.INPUT({type : 'text', name : 'email'}),
    html.INPUT({type : 'text', name : 'password'}),
    html.INPUT({type : 'submit'}),
  )
);

Pretty slick!

Here is a link to a video that demonstrates Fast OS Switching between OSX and XP on a Mac Mini that uses Parallels and the Virtue Desktops virtual desktop manager.

iAlertU is a very innovative piece of software that makes use of the motion sensor used in the new MacBook Pro’s to detect when somebody is attempting to steal your Mac!

Have you ever felt that personal tape backup was priced out of your reach? Firestreamer-DV is a program that lets you turn your existing MiniDV Camcorder into a tape backup device for your Windows data! A miniDV tape will hold anywhere from 11GB to 56GB depending on the length of the tape you purchase.